At school I used to find all types of excuses not to do my homework and the same is happening with my video editing. Today I overshot my morning coffee break with 1hr surfing blog explosion to get enough credits for another blog battle.

Since last Monday I've been trimming the pre selected clips to remove any extra footage. This is a butcher's knife trim that is serving as a weed killer. I'm planning to trim around 50% - 70% of the original 7 hour footage.

To make this process faster I'm not trimming audio for the time being. I'm still listening to the original audio in the tracks and if I think the audio only should be retained I'm copying the audio section in the second muted audio track. Sometimes especially when editing noisy tracks (such as boat rides) turning down the audio helped me judge the better visual scenes.